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The Art Institutes 

The Art Institutes (AI) were a private for-profit system of art schools in the United States.2

The Art Institutes offered programs at the certificate, associate's, bachelors, and master's levels. By 2012, there were 50 campuses with roughly 80,000 enrolled students.
The Art Institutes offered degree programs at the associate's, bachelor's and master's levels, as well as non-degree diploma programs. Areas of study included graphic design, media arts and animation, culinary arts, photography, digital filmmaking and video production, interior design, audio production, fashion design, game art and design, baking and pastry, and fashion marketing.
The Art Institutes by Wendysfg November 12, 2023
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the art of thinking in between

The Art of Thinking in Between is the ability to hold multiple conflicting perspectives simultaneously - not to choose between them, but to extract what each one is actually asking for and construct a solution that none of them could have reached alone.

It's not compromise. Compromise gives everyone less than they wanted. The art of thinking in between gives everyone more than they asked for - because it works from values, not positions.

It's a cognitive skill built by people who grew up navigating multiple cultural frameworks at once. But anyone can learn it. And once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Everyone in the meeting was stuck between two options. She didn't pick one. She applied the art of thinking in between and came up with a solution nobody had even considered.

Master at the art of buffoonery

An insult which does not require you to swear but destroys your opponent. This insult enlightens your opponent about their shortcomings and annoyance to the society.
Sarah - you are ugly
Me - you my friend are a master at the art of buffoonery

state of the art

State of the art (sometimes cutting edge) refers to the highest level of general development, as of a device, technique, or scientific field achieved at a particular time. It also refers to such a level of development reached at any particular time as a result of the common methodologies employed at the time.

Ref <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_art>
In the present state of the art this is all that can be done.
state of the art by Tyskink September 29, 2017

state-of-the-art 

Soon-to-be-obsolete.
Every piece of new computer hardware is considered state-of-the-art for an average period of four months.
state-of-the-art by AYB July 30, 2003

"my defense of fahrenheit is that 69° is ideal weather in fahrenheit but dead people weather in celsius"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War 

"my defense of fahrenheit is that 69° is ideal weather in fahrenheit but dead people weather in celsius"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Hey dude check this out, "my defense of fahrenheit is that 69° is ideal weather in fahrenheit but dead people weather in celsius"-Sun Tzu, The Art of War"

School of the Art Institute of chicago 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago is an art school in Chicago where everyone is 5 inches taller than their actual height because they are all required to wear chunky filas, otherwise they will be guillotined by a giant exacto knife.
person 1: Omg the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is so awesome for spending the entire student life budget on buying chunky filas for their students!
person 2: Oops, this is so awkward, I actually bought these myself. They only cost $500 at Village Discount!